Device for cooling twyer-irons



s. MATHEWS. DEVICE FOR COOLING TWYER IRONS.

Af PLIATLON FILED JAN. 6, I920.'

Patented Jan. 11, 1921.

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Jill away UNITEDSTATES SAMUEL MATHEWS, 0F McCURTAIN', OKLAHOMA. I

DEVICE FOR COOLING TWYEn-IEoNsf.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented J an. 11, 1921.

Application filed January 6, 1920. Serial No. 349,810.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SAMUEL MATHEWS, a citizenof the United States of America, and resident of McCurtain, in thecounty of Haskell and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Devices for Cooling Twyer-Irons, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to forges and particularly to means forpreventing the burning of twyer irons, the said invention having for itsobject the provision of novel means for maintaining the temperaturerelatively low without affecting the fire, the said device includingnovel means for creating acirculation of water in close proximity to thetwyer iron without detrimentally affecting the entrance of air currentfrom the blower.

.A still further object of this invention is to provide a member havingan annular channel with branches leading therefrom to permit thecirculation of fluid which will tend to maintain the temperaturepractically uniform.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists inthe details of construction, and in. the arrangement and combination ofparts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to theaccompanying drawings forming part of this specification wherein likecharacters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in whichFigure 1 illustrates a sectional view of a twyer with the. blower anddevice embodying the invention in operative relation thereto;

Fig. 2 illustrates an enlarged detail view, partly in section showing adevice embodying the invention; and

Fig. 3 illustrates a longitudinal sectional view of the circulatingpipe.

In these drawings 5 denotes a twyer iron which may be of any appropriateconstruc-' tion and I do not wish to be limited with respect to thiselement or the manner in which it is formed, but I employ in connectionwith it an air pipe 6, the central por-' tion of which has a passage forair, the said pipe having a double wall forming an annular chamber 7with closed ends through which Water may circulate, and the said pipemay be said to be jacketed, as shown'in Fig. 3. r

In order to install the invention in operative relation to the twyer,suitable brackets such as 8 may be employed for supporting a receptacleor barrel 9, and the said receptacle has a faucet 10 in communicationwith it, so that fluid within the receptacle 9 may flow through thefaucet. A nipple 11 connects the faucet with the annular chamber of thepipe'6 and the pipe 12 connects the said annular chamber with thereceptacle 9 so that fluid will pass from the receptacle into theannular chamber and after it is expanded by the heat of the fire on thetwyer, '70

the water within the tank will continue to circulate being cooled whileit is outside of the annular chamber so that over-heating of the twyerwill be prevented.

A drain nipple or cook 13 is tapped into the outer wall of the pipe sothat the same may be drained to prevent freezing.

In installing the invention, I connect the outer end of the pipe to aconduit or tube14 leading from the blower15 and .I donot wish to berestricted with respect to this arrangement of parts as any convenientmeans may be provided for supplying air to the pipe as is common instorage constructions, but it has been found in practice that the deviceis very effective in preventing formation of clinkers and in protectingthe twyer iron whereas the expense of installation and maintenance iscomparatively small, in fact the expense of maintenance is m'Z.

I claim 1. In a device for coolingtwyer'irons, an air pipe extendinginto the twyer iron, a jacket surrounding the twyer iron and forming anannular chamber, means for supplying fluid to'the said chamber, meansfor conducting fluid from the chamber and a receptacle from whichthe'first mentioned means conducts the fluid and to which the secondmentioned means conducts the fluid 2. In a device for protecting twyerirons, a pipe having a jacket embracingthe same and spaced therefrom toform an annular between the faucet and the said annular chamber Withclosed ends, a pipe threaded. chamber through the jacket, a drain cockto the jacket and communicating with the threaded in the said jacket, ablower, and 10 annular chamber, a receptacle to which the means ofcommunication between the blower said pipe discharges, a faucet incommuniand the interior of the pipe.

cation with the receptacle for receiving fluid therefrom, means ofcommunication SAMUEL MATHEWS.

